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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lower-class Kilburn district of London, he gradually built up a thriving practice of 4,000 patients, most of them white. His modest home became a favorite meeting place for such future African leaders as Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah, who called him affectionately "G.P." or "the Doc." Intense and impassioned about his native Nyasaland, he became increasingly bitter after the Federation was formed in 1953. "The Nyasas," he insisted, "have been deceived by a people whom they had grown to regard as Christian and honest, and betrayed by a government which for 60 years they had relied upon...
Died. Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, 71 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1953), rum-swigging onetime U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate, who landed in Haiti in 1927 during the long (1915-34) Marine occupation, stayed on when the troops went home, as director of the country's only insane asylum, took up the study of voodoo, became a houngan (priest) and internationally famed explicator of the jungle rites; of a heart attack; at his wattled hut near Port-au-Prince...
...unlike Dillon, Dooley is a businessman ("I own 37½% of the Weeping Willow Saloon") and contemplator ("This is Boot Hill-I like to come up here sometimes, to think, and maybe get a grave or two ahead"). With the help of the "finest undertaker west of Dodge City," Doc Stucke (clearly related to Gunsmoke's Doc Adams), and loyal, limping Deputy Clyde Diefendorfer (Gunsmoke's Chester), Marshal Dooley watches hawk-eyed over the welfare of the town's citizens, taking special pains that drunks who wander out of the saloons are courteously guided right back inside...
...chiropractor Clinton A. ("Doc") Clauson, 63, Waterville fuel-oil dealer and onetime mayor, defeated onetime (1945-49) Republican Governor Horace Hildreth, 55, former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, by a respectable 10,600 votes...
California Gold. Trainer Molter was crowded off the plane, and Peters arrived alone just before the race. "We got to settle this right now, Doc," said Horse Trader Hancock as Round Table headed for the starting gate. "The price may go up after the race-or I might not sell at all." Veterinarian Peters quickly agreed to buy ("soundest horse I ever examined")-and then sat back to watch Round Table finish out of the money. When Trainer Molter finally showed up, he thought the colt looked discouragingly small. Says he: "If I had been there on time, I might...